Infosecurity News
SendGrid Hacked: Beware Mass Email Phishes
SendGrid is used by 180,000 companies to send 14 billion emails per month, making it a big target for phishing artists.
Porn Site xHamster Crushed by Fresh Malvertising Attack
This time, cybercriminals are loading different exploit kits into the same victim PCs to deploy a range of malware.
WordPress Patches Zero-Day XSS Flaw
Vulnerability in comments section could enable web server hack
(ISC)2 Names GISLA Finalists
The honorees for the 12th annual Government Information Security Leadership Awards are out, including contenders for a new "up-and-coming" category.
Expert Raises Hacking Concerns Over Network Rail Upgrade
New digital signaling system could be vulnerable to insider threat
Awareness Grows for File Transfer Security, But Still Work to Do
Many organizations, especially in healthcare, are still using insecure file services like the consumer version of Dropbox.
#RSAC: The Positives and Pitfalls of Surveillance
Industry boffins assess the technology power balance
Japan’s Nuke Reactor Firm Told to Migrate Off XP ASAP
Auditor claims security risks are too high for Tepco
Banking Botnets Bounce Back Despite Takedowns
Dell SecureWorks report points to resilient and evasive enemy
#RSAC: IBM Embraces the Cloud
In order to provide predictive analytics, actionable, open threat intelligence is a necessary piece of the puzzle.
#RSAC: How CISOs Can Gain the Ear of the Board
The role of the CISO is in a state of flux, as it affects real business processes beyond security, across the organization.
#RSAC: Encryption Hinders Government Fight Against Crime, says Homeland Security Chief
Secretary Jeh Jonson calls for greater collaboration with private sector
#RSAC: Time for Security to Leave the Dark Ages
Amit Yoran, RSA president, says that security must reach Enlightenment
PayPal Points Way to Edible Biometric Devices
Passwords need to perish, says payments giant
APT28 Back in RussianDoll Attack Using Adobe, Windows Flaws
Russian cyber gang aims might at foreign government entity
WikiLeaks Publishes Hacked Sony Docs, Emails
Hundreds of thousands of documents and emails from the Sony hack show “a rare insight into the inner workings of a large, secretive multinational corporation.”
Public-Facing Web Assets Expose Banks to Greater Risk
RiskIQ report claims each bank has 7500 external assets on average
HSBC Notifies Consumers of Mortgage Information Breach
The firm believes the exposure began sometime towards the end of 2014 and continued until March 27, 2015.
IBM Launches Open Threat Intelligence Platform
IBM has debuted a new data-sharing exchange that is modeled off of social networking.
UK Law Firms Putting Client Data at Risk
FoI request finds ICO warning has fallen on deaf ears
